useful as a study tool for those preparing for Coast Guard and similar navigation courses.

– Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Every navigator would benefit from having this comprehensive reference book available as a refresher or for new skills.

– Ocean Navigator

An excellent self-teaching textbook....His approach is straightforward and his sense of humor refreshing.

– The Ensign

Yes, we have our Chapman and our Bowditch (somewhere), and The Annapolis Book of Seamanship, but it seems to us that the author Frank J. Larkin, in this new edition, makes the subject of piloting and dead reckoning much less daunting and easy to comprehend. Larkin starts at the beginning and takes the reader through the basics of such things as using dividers and a chart, with the kind of useful information sometimes passed over in more sophisticated treatments of the subject. We like that, and we think this 278-page reference is more likely to be read cover-to-cover.

– Powerboat Reports